Elkski

Just flew through Shanghai on the 21st.  They  had a lady watching the line walking by at 10-15 meters. She stood looking at  a tripod  mounted camera looking thing.  Not very techie imho.  Incoming thermal inspection arriving in Seattle,  USA.    I believe Thailand is going to get a lot more than money  from the Tourism this Chinese  new Year. 

Open  relationship? Is that what the OP said?   I think this helps make a marriage better. 

15 k plus 1 k a year sounds about what I know from 2 data points.  One teacher  55 who also is  school nurse and helps kids with art projects that win her school top honors and maybe bonuses.  She makes 53 k/ mo. One year recently she got 2 raises.  She has no debt.   She showed me a list of about 15 teacher salaries.  45-65 k/ mo.  I really dont think they make as little as some guess.  

I dont hold much hope.  But look at America,  I dont have much hope  for either. 

I understand there are business costs.  By this same  assumption you agree a taxi is a business.   So fo you think it's ok for a cake shop to refuse to bake for a same sex couple or fat farang? I dont set the cab time and mileage fees.  Evidently they cab driver was aware of these rates.  It was close to 100 baht for the 15 min ride.  It seems they like airport runs but that is usually less than 300 baht from asoke.  And maybe would have been  45 mins.  I just dont see how refusing  a fare  is a good economic choice.     I was firing up grab when  we got a taxi.  Taxis cant cry losing revenue to grab imho

3 million  correlates with my one in debt teacher that I have met.    I think for many Thai's this is the first generation who had a chance at an education  and a prestigious government job.  Lots of gatherings to attend and show face.  Many needed a car to get to schools.  Why not build a house.  These funeral insurance loans so easy to get.  I  think I recall  a 6-9% insurance premium above the loan value mentioned  last year  when this was in the news.  They Could just keep refinancing everything into bigger and bigger loans.  A 60-70% payment to salary  ratio  was ok.  Meaning retirement income wont be enough. Payment periods well past normal  retirement years. No bankruptcy in Thailand.   I was told if as government worker quit paying they would lose their job.  I was also told only retired teachers participated in the protest last year because they would be fired if they were current teachers.  Basically the only way they will ever be free from these loans is when they die.  But even then I'm not sure what happens to the car the house the land. Just imagine, the profit was made on this much money

iPhone  brand loyalty is indicative of something not good.  I'm against apple.   I believe and support  a more open source game. What scares me are old people who say they will never use a smartphone and they can vote

So a few royal plants in danger so now the water is to salty.   

What  airport did she come through on the 13th?  What time?  How do they only think 20 other people came into  contact?

2 hours ago, Number 6 said:

Black eye on Thailand - couldn't get a lift in the middle of a traffic jam. Good laff thar

 

Yes, I do. People offer services under whatever conditions they choose. I have the option to use or reject the services.

 

I realize I may be in the minority but I wholly side with the taxi drivers regardless of any stupid law which they blatantly disregard because there's no way a poor person is going to act to actively lose himself money. Wake up and stop acting so entitled.

 

Moreover, anyone not on life support would know not to try and get a standing taxi anywhere, but especially Sukhumvhit. Then you complain about it.

 

Arguably, the taxi is sitting and not looking for fares.

 

Sukhumvhit is very crowded and a bone creaking slow go. I have every sympathy for the driver.

 

Take a motorcycle.

How long have you enabled this behavior?  So you cant complain but I can.   There is always traffic in BKK.  They were taxis in the pickup lane of terminal 21.  Oh I guess that means they didnt want work?  Means  they can refuse fares?    Let's just see how this concept goes over with the real World. 

2 hours ago, Number 6 said:

I don't know why this is such a problem for people. It's their taxi. They don't want the fare! How many times I driver turned me down in NYC? Many. It's their business, up to them.

 

They fancied not sitting in two hours of traffic for 100b

 

Of course you flagged the taxi down right?

 

Typical tourist whine.

Stupidly on display or satire?

So there is no rule that a taxi must take the fare? Within reason.    And use the meter?  I thought I read where the government wants people to report if a taxi wont use the meter. 

The ride was only 20 mins not 2 hours.

The fact is this is a black eye on Thailand.   Sorry if you think it's ok for a taxi to refuse  to do his job.  Maybe you feel the same way about your doctor, masseuse,  or the diner?

The numbers are really not important.   They need to somehow calculate this into $ spent.  They should also track things like if people will likely return or will they promote or trash Thailand  with friends and family and social  media.  

They should ask what are positive and negative  memories.  

Bus stop  fans to blow the bus pollution down the street 50meters.  

I'm all for brainstorming. 

Set tight vehicle emission standards for this time of year if not  always. 

Start with all taxis and buses.  Get off the road if needed.  

Install  reputable particle counters  at about 10,000 locations  in Thailand.  In bkk start with all the bus stops.   Rrsdongs posted in real time  like airvisual.com or purpkeair.com.  

Make quality n95 masks available for Asian  faces.    Educate on poor results with low quality  masks. 

Roadways in bkk should be swept with  a street sweeper every 48 hours. All  construction sites need a tire hose off area.

This was at the terminal 21 official taxi station facing  Suk

Just had 6 taxis in a row at terminal 21 refuse us.    Going to  thonglor soi 6.   I know  economics  but there is a law and I assure you I was irate.   I videoed a few of them.  Good thing was they lost their place in the taxi  line and had to exit out onto Suk.  Hopefully they understand " tourist police "  and worry for a second  about a ticket.   I may actually file a complaint Saturday.   If no one ever complains this <deleted> will continue.  I will also post about taxis and the bad air on every social and Thailand  board I am on.  This is with a thai person doing all the talking. 

I fixed it.  Went into settings/

Apps then looked at gallery  and opened  its setting gear next to it.  Then unchecked the save deleted files for 30 days.  

I read where someone else had issues with this other location taking up all the memory. 

Just did a main cache clear in diagnostic  mode but still no room?.  I dont get memory full error but I start to take a video and it shows I can only take 13 seconds not the 60+ minutes I should have. 

I cant take  pictures.   Memory  is full 64 gb.  I've been offloading  pictures every couple of days to s thumb drive.   But after offloading 1.6 gb and then deleting the pictures in my gallery phone is still full.   I swear I saw a empty trash bin button last week and I thought  that opened up space after deleting pictures.   I cant find where to  empty the trash?  I'm thinking the pictures are deleted but still  occupying space.  It seemed to work that way  last week. I clean memory and storage  in  device care.  I'm wondering  if I have a virus or what to do.

I would prefer to not see rats in cities where I travel to or live.  If rats shame Thailand  then make it a Priority  to fight them.  I see rats every visit  on suk near soi 38-55.  Good rats  with cash in real Rats out!

What about the guys at soi cowboy.  The same 3-4 spooks we go pester you evernight.  How can this be ignored?  Big brown envelope?  Surely a Rolex for 500 baht can't be original.  

I hope  it will be ok north of chiang rai next 4 days.   Give a shoot to kill order on field burners. 

If we really knew the number of minutes of o uh r lives we lose for time exposed to various pollution levels.   Unfortunately for post of us death comes many years later so it's hard to measure cause and effect 

Good shop  22+ gold is not really suitable for jewelry. It's to soft.  I am surprised the cost to fabricate the jewelry is so low.  Gold  store jewelry really is not very good looking up close. Rough finish.  Jewelry store gold costs much more and is harder 18 gold.  But I dont think poor thai women value it very much. 

Here is some 22 gold.